This post is #32 in a series of 50 dedicated to the art and life of writing, in support of the 50 for 50 Project to benefit WriteGirl. If you like it, or if you think it could have been improved by a better writing education for its author, please give generously. And pass it on. I spent the [...]
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This post is #1 in a series of 50 dedicated to the art and life of writing, in support of the 50 for 50 Project to benefit WriteGirl. If you like it, or if you think it could have been improved by a better writing education for its author, please give generously. And pass it [...]
Several years ago, during the dawn of the Social Media Age, I ran into someone I knew ever-so slightly from the blogging circuit at one of the nerd conferences people on blogging circuits tend to run into each other at. A kind of a celebrity-hero of early Web 2.0, albeit an accessible one. Many of [...]
Virgo is the sign of service visualized as a maiden in a flowing robe, hair up or down, bearing grain. Not a lion, not a bull not a ram. Not a hottie hoisting a vat of water to his massive shoulder with his studly arms. Not a sharpshooter, a skilled, sought-after professional, never mind the [...]
If you tell me miracles do not happen I will not contradict you. I cannot point to precise amounts of money showing up in time to save the curly-headed ingenue lashed to the tracks from the fiery vengeance of a foul-breathed dragon. I do not believe in spontaneous healing or insta-overhauls and I am pretty [...]
I am imagining you a song: it is the song of your dreams if your dream is to hear Frank Loesser’s “More I Cannot Wish You” sung by the perfect Irish baritone, breaking here and there in places because he’s seen and heard it all, or a virginal chorus of earnest high school voices, painfully [...]
I’m curious: now that you’re four months or so into the process of slowing down and doing less , washing the metaphorical dishes in your psychic kitchen sink, if you will, and clearing off the piles of metaphorical papers on your psychic desk top, if you will , what are you uncovering? , Dan Owen, [...]
It’s so sad, isn’t it? The way he eats/ she drinks/ they sit around and shoot up sitcoms all day long? What a waste of life. Can’t they see how much better off they’d be swimming laps/ eating seaweed/ doing hot yoga/ loving Jesus? Can’t they hear what all of that Guitar Hero is doing [...]
After numerous setbacks, some regular-usuals that I now know to plan for (hello, holidays!), some spontaneous combustibles that required urgent but unscheduled attention, I wrapped up my goal planning for 2010. Yes, five weeks or roughly 10% of the way into the year I’m supposed to be living, I’m done planning for it.* It is [...]
You will look better with that 32″ waist eating more fresh fruits and vegetables sleeping eight hours nightly doing first things first and getting many things done. You might feel righteous and virtuous and even gleeful with squeaky-clean windows and a clutter-free car and a bright white sink empty of contents Your friends and your [...]
